GRE Word List
ENIGMA
something hard to understand or explain
The meaning of the word enigma is something hard to understand or explain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| commune | talk over |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| imbue | endow |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |